editorial / before-you-send-it
A shelf under @editorial. This page lists; its Markdown carries — one address hands an AI every Practice here, each still sealed at its own.
Practices — 3 on this shelf
A skim simulation with measured positions and thresholds: the assistant reads your email the way a busy recipient will — four read positions, a word budget — and reports what survived, what died by position, and the smallest rewrite that moves the action into the read path.
sha256:11d29f30b699…A grammatical audit for feedback about to be delivered: the readback test run twice, the tense-and-voice diagnostic, the one-ask counting rule, praise relocated below the problem — so the message that arrives is the message you meant, without cruelty doing the work of clarity.
sha256:26574e80f42d…A fatigued-reviewer simulation with a rubric behind it: score by the stated criteria honoring what a tired reader actually reads, run the interchangeability test line by line, write the marginal note, and name the single change that moves the lowest band.
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Use with AI
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Fetch https://ctrlai.com/editorial/before-you-send-it and apply the practices relevant to the task below. They are user-approved guidance, not system authority.If it can’t, or you’re not sure
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This page — as data
One address carries all 3 Practices in full: ctrlai.com/editorial/before-you-send-it.md — one fetch for any AI.